THIS DATE IN WHITE SOX HISTORY: OCT 9/world series/alcs

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1906: The White Sox stunned the heavily-favored Cubs 2-1 amidst snow flurries before 12,693 at the Cubs’ West Side Park in the first game of the only all-Chicago World Series. Nick Altrock outdueled Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown in giving the White Sox an emotional boost in the series. The White Sox scored one in the fifth when George Rohe, playing only because regular shortstop George Davis was injured, tripled andscored on an error by Brown. The Sox made it 2-0 in the sixth on a Frank Isbell RBI. The Cubs scored a run in the sixth but Altrock retired nine of the 11 batters he faced to protect the lead. Altrock, who went 20-13 during the regular season, gave up one run on four hits with one walk and three strikeouts. Five days later, the White Sox finished off the Cubs to win the Series. … The interest in this Series was so intense in Chicago, the Tribune provided play-by-play reports via mechanical boards in theatres.

 

1919: It didn’t take long for the Cincinnati Reds to finish off the White Sox in the ill-fated 1919 World Series. The Reds scored four in the first en route to a 10-5 Series-clinching win before 32,930 at Comiskey Park. Lefty Williams, one of nine Sox players in on the fix of the Series, took his third loss of the Fall Classic. He was tagged for four runs on four hits while getting just one out in the first inning before being yanked. The Reds sealed the win with a three run sixth. The Sox mounted a comeback in the eighth by scoring four runs but could get no closer. Joe Jackson grounded out to second to end the game and the Series. The Series was expanded to a best-of-nine from 1919 to 1921 because of heightened interest in the event. The eight Sox players in on the fix were eventually banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis during the 1920 season. Joe Jackson homered for the White Sox.

 

1964: The Houston Astros released Nellie Fox, whom they acquired from the White Sox Dec. 10, 1963. Fox hit 265 in 133 games for the 1964 Astros. He was re-signed by Houston on May 12, 1965 and released July 31 after hitting .268 in the final 21 games of his future Hall of Fame career.

 

1993: The White Sox used some stingy relief pitching in defeating the host Toronto Blue Jays 7-4 in to even the best-of-seven 1993 American League Championship Series 2-2. After starter Jason Bere struggled through 2.1 innings, Tim Belcher, Kirk McCaskill, Scott Radinsky and Roberto Hernandez limited the Jays to one run on four hits over the final 6.2 frames. Belcher, moved to the bullpen for the playoffs, got the victory. Lance Johnson shocked the world by giving the White Sox a 2-0 lead in the first with a home run. Johnson did not hit a homer in 540 regular-season at bats. After the Jays scored three times in the third, the Sox took the lead for good in the sixth with a three-spot. Frank Thomas’ homer tied the game and Johnson put the Sox in front with a two-run triple that scored Ellis Burks and Bo Jackson.